At VMware Explore 2025, questions about whether the event will continue overshadowed sessions showcasing VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, AI-native private cloud advances, and new security integrations, as attendance and expo size shrink under Broadcom ownership.
Tom Fenton recounts how EUC World Amplify 2025’s final "unconference" day featured candid, vendor-neutral discussions on app packaging, hypervisor strategy amid VMware licensing shifts, and modernization tradeoffs, plus updates from Parallels, Nerdio, Dizzion, Google, and IGEL, with talk of a Melbourne expansion.
Paul Schnackenburg details how DARPA's AIxCC showcases autonomous systems that find reachable vulnerabilities, generate and test patches, and produce SARIF reports at scale--and explains how IT pros can apply these practices to improve software quality in their organizations by combining fuzzing and static/dynamic analysis with LLM-driven automation and integrating PoV/patch workflows into CI/CD.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/02/2025
Tom Fenton details the conference keynote and major announcements about the company's products and direction.
The mess in a tl;dr: "You have to pay more for what you had, buy more cores, and you can't scale down, and you have to buy more features, and Broadcom probably hates having you as a customer."
Tom Fenton says Day 1 at Broadcom VMware Explore 2025 felt leaner and more engineering-driven. Conversations centered on packaging/licensing tradeoffs and hands-on use of the full VMware stack. Highlights included deep dives on vGPU management for AI in VCF 9, a 100-level VCF platform tour, and bite-size Quick Talks on scripting GPU ops with PowerShell and Python, capped by a lower-key welcome reception.
The best thing that a business can do to avoid falling for a hallucination when using a general-purpose generative AI tool is to require the tool to provide references and then take the time to verify those references, says Brien Posey.
AWS instructor Carlos Rivas outlined three immediate action items to secure Amazon S3: continuous evaluation, automated monitoring, and strong encryption with access controls.
EUC World Amplify 2025 lived up to its billing as the must-attend end-user computing event of the year. Across keynotes, panels, and sponsor sessions, the first two days showcased the industry’s vendor-agnostic spirit, deep dives into AI’s practical role in VDI, new strategies around virtualization, and bold product announcements.
Brien Posey breaks down the 6 R’s of application migration and how each applies to AI-ready hybrid cloud environments, from quick lift-and-shift moves to complex refactoring for maximum scalability and performance.
Karen Lopez shows how IT pros can go beyond monitoring with AI-powered analytics to spot threats before they become breaches. From tracking encryption drift to investigating off-hours data access, here are five practical moves you can make today.
Nine months after its release, Windows Server 2025 is proving Microsoft hasn’t lost focus on on-prem. From GPU live migration to VMware alternatives, WAC upgrades, hotpatching and more, our IT pro and 1-person SOC from Down Under explains in exhaustive detail what’s new--and what’s next.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/28/2025
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI, but at what cost? Microsoft, AWS, and Google are ramping up infrastructure spend -- while cutting thousands of jobs. Are layoffs, some possibly attributed to AI replacements, quietly fueling the AI boom?
Ever since VMware sold its End User Computing business, VMware has effectively excluded EUC sessions from VMware Explore, its annual conference. says Tom Fenton, who as a result has been searching for a conference to replace it.
Our "one-person SOC" from Down Under, Paul Schnackenburg -- definiely not a dev -- tuned into the dev-heavy Microsoft Build 2025 conference and walked away with valuable insights for IT teams. From Copilot Studio to local AI agents and post-quantum cryptography, his takeaway? Even if you're not coding, there's plenty to unpack in the agentic AI wave.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/30/2025
It was introduced at VMware Explore last year as a unified platform designed to integrate all their enterprise tools to manage private and public clouds seamlessly, from a single interface.
The VMware Explore site is now live, presenting its reasons for attending the event. Tom Fenton has his own reasons for attending, some of which align with theirs, while others do not.
Paul Schnackenburg, working in the IT trenches every day as a 1-person SoC, looks at how the cybersecurity kill chain is evolving in the SaaS era, where identity is the new perimeter and attackers exploit cloud app integrations, SSO, and OAuth to gain and maintain access.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/27/2025
Our 1-person SOC from Down Under thinks Security Copilot is the new shiny for Microsoft and is worried they'll add so many features to it that they'll forget about those who can't afford it and who rely on non-Security Copilot features, thus missing out.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/02/2025
Karen Lopez (@datachick) breaks down modern disaster recovery with a restore-first mindset, immutable storage, and dark data awareness.